THE CONGRESS: Blood As Well As Treasure

While the Senate debated ERP (see
above), New Jersey's old Charley Eaton and his House Foreign Affairs
Committee set to work on a monumental project: to combine all U.S. aid
programs in one omnibus bill. The committee worked in a mood of
impatiencean impatience directed chiefly toward the State Department.

George Marshall appeared before the committee to plead for another $275
million in military aid to Greece* and Turkey. These new funds, he
said, are urgently needed to "discourage more overt [Communist]
aggression," particularly against Greece. Added Marshall: "The
situation is serious,...